Ex-FERC commissioners debate solutions to coal self-committments said to cost millions

Utility Dive: Reports from the Union of Concerned Scientists, Sierra Club and others are finding that self-committing coal-fired power is costing consumers across wholesale power markets millions of dollars annually. Within the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) region, uneconomic self-commitment cost ratepayers $350 million in 2018, averaging $60 per customer, according to a report released last week from the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS).

Some of the utilities pegged as the worst offenders disputed UCS' findings in full, as did coal power advocate America's Power.

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